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Bioethicists often lack a clear prescence in quality assurance committees, but their involvement has many potential benefits for clinical ethics services, clinicians, hospital administrators, and patients.
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More hospitals and health care facilities are developing policies, procedures, resources, and training modules to address disclosure of mistakes to patients and families.
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Informed consent is a key ethical concern when health care providers are consenting to a mandatory vaccination, since autonomous patient choice is not possible where vaccination is a condition of employment.
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Patient safety is at risk if clinicians with undiagnosed conditions causing impairment continue to practice, but colleagues often fail to report the impairment.
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Occasionally, clinicians, patients, or surrogates reject an ethicists advice or recommendations. In this scenario, bioethicists should seek to maintain working relationships and continue dialogue.
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Customer service is included in the patient access job description at Baptist Health Richmond (KY).
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It is often difficult to justify additional FTEs in patient access areas, because leaders lack the ability to measure staffing needs.
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In several states, most of the people enrolling through new online insurance marketplaces are signing on to Medicaid.
